Brad Franklin

Plaintiff Representation Legal Consultant - Mental Health Civil Rights Advocate

Brad Franklin brings over 35 years of lived experience navigating - and challenging - the failures of the American mental health system. As a survivor, advocate, and innovator, Brad has continually transformed adversity into action, building a track record of persistence, purpose, and impact in the fight for civil rights and mental health justice.

What Brad Brings to the Table:

- Legal consulting experience in plaintiff-side mental health civil rights cases, with a focus on Title VII claims and systemic discrimination involving parity law violations and insurance denial of care.

- Over 35 years as a dedicated advocate for mental health and civil rights reform.

- Plaintiff in a precedent-setting 2001 Ninth Circuit Mental Health Civil Rights case, resulting in punitive damages instructions sent to the jury.

- In-depth, firsthand understanding of institutional failures, including patterns of insurance abuse and lack of parity compliance.

- Expertise in identifying, analyzing, and articulating systemic harm and discrimination within healthcare and insurance systems.

- Proven ability to translate lived experience into compelling legal narratives, evidentiary support, and strategic insight.

- Strategic resource for law firms litigating class actions or individual claims tied to mental health discrimination and denial of care.

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Litigation Experience

Personally involved as the plaintiff in a civil rights, depressive mood discrimination lawsuit against my previous employer of eleven years, a Fortune 500 company, I know first hand the battle and survival struggles individuals with this disorder may face. Jury trial, punitive damages instructions to the jury, appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 14 year in litigation, I do not give up. I live my life as the "Man in the Arena".

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Mental Health Advocacy . Dual Diagnosis Recovery

Growing up within the dynamics of an affected family unit, my life experience with depressive mood disorders, dual diagnosis and recovery dates back over 35 years.

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